Last week I took part in a day on blogging hosted by the Evangelical Alliance (called Godblogs), it was an interesting day, hosted by Krish Kandiah. Mark Meynell from All Souls Langham Place, introduced us to some different types of blogs, (I think this blog has become the Pastor’s Study). I did a short talk on the differences I’ve noticed between online and offline communities and then Pete Sanlon talked about a theology of web 2.0. So far, so good.

In the final session we discussed a proposed 10 commandments of blogging. It was all very nice and probably already done and done better elsewhere, such as the Bloggers Code of Conduct led by Tim O’Reilly (thanks to Jeremy for the HT). After some discussion, I suggested that it would be more interesting if they followed more closely the ten commandments in Exodus 20:1-17, and so quickly drafted a rough version. This, it seemed to me, we agreed was a bit more interesting and soon after that the day was brought to a close. A day or so later, I was sent an email with a polished up version of those 10 commandments. A few more days pass and another email is sent round, asking us to hold off talking about the day until the Times reported on the 10 commandments with follow up comment by Ruth Gledhill here.

It has generated a fair amount of discussion around the blogosphere – here’s what I’ve found
Fans:
Empty Head seems reasonably positive as does PoliGazette

Critics:
Ben Myers doesn’t like them but offers 10 (funnier) alternatives
Benediction thinks the EA missed a trick or too

Reports:
The EA press release is here with some worthier commitments at the end
Richard Hall offers some other links and thinks the process was a bit faulty
Telegraph report here

• Dave Matthias reflects helpfully as always
• Unashamed Workman
• The Lead
• Church Warnings
• Jane Stranz
• Alwyn ap Huw

More blogs on this here